DON'T TRY TO FIX EDEN SAYS BENEDICT XVI

BENEDICT XVI SAYS: “DON’T TRY TO FIX EDEN”,  IT IS USELESS TO MANIPULATE OR TO ACCOMMODATE THE ORIGINAL SIN.  

BISHOPS AND PRIESTS ABANDONED THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCTRINE OF DIVINE REVELATION  JUST TO FALL IN MYTHS AND MODERN PSYCHOLOGY.

1)-POPE BENEDICT XVI ADMONISHES US IT IS USELESS TO MANIPULATE THE INITIAL SIN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

MANY BISHOPS TEACH TO IGNORE THE ORIGINAL SIN AS AN OLD BELIEF WHICH PASSED!  “WE KNOW MORE NOW” AS THEY SAY!  HOWEVER, THIS VERY FALSE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ORIGINAL SIN DID HAVE AND CONTINUE TO BEAR DESASTROUS MORAL CONSEQUENCES IN SO MANY LIVES.

2)-BENEDICT XVI, IN HIS AUDIENCE OF FEBRUARY 6, 2013,  THROWS TREMENDOUS LIGHT ON THIS INITIAL SIN.

THE POPE TEACHES US TO UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINAL SIN    THIS RELATIONSHIP WITH ALL THE SINS OF THE WORLD UNTIL THE FINAL HOUR.

3)-FIRST OF ALL, WHAT IS THIS REALITY OF THE ORIGINAL SIN?

THE ORIGINAL SIN MUST BE UNDERSTOOD IN ITS HUMAN CONTEXT.  MEN ARE INTERDEPENDENT FROM ONE ANOTHER.  THE HUMAN BEING IS A RELATIONSHIP.

May we read the Holy Father in his own words:

“I would like to highlight a final teaching in the accounts of the Creation; sin begets sin and all the sins of history are interconnected. This aspect impels us to speak of what is called “original sin”. What is the meaning of this reality that is not easy to understand? I would just like to suggest a few points. First of all we must consider that no human being is closed in on himself, no one can live solely for himself and by himself; we receive life from the other and not only at the moment of our birth but every day. Being human is a relationship: I am myself only in the “you” and through the “you”, in the relationship of love with the “you” of God and the “you” of others.

4)-ADAM AND EVE DESTROYED THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.

THE POPE TEACHES US THAT MEN, IN THIS INITIAL SIN,  PUT THEMSELVES IN GOD’S PLACE.
MEN FORGOT THEIR STATE OF LIFE AS CREATURES TO DECLARE THEMSELVES THEIR OWN CREATORS. THUS WITH THE INITIAL SIN MAN PROCLAIMED HIMSELF AGAINST GOD.

May we read the Holy Father in his own words:

“Well, sin is the distortion or destruction of the relationship with God, this is its essence: it ruins the relationship with God, the fundamental relationship, by putting ourselves in God’s place.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that with the first sin man “chose himself over and against God, against the requirements of his creaturely status and therefore against his own good” (n. 398).”

5)-THE SIN OF ADAM AND EVE DESTROYED THE RELATIONSHIP GOD HAD WITH US.

THE POPE CLARIFIES THE DOCTRINE OF THE ORIGINAL SIN.  EACH HUMAN BEING IS A RELATIONSHIP IN HIMSELF WITH SOMEONE ELSE.  THE RELATIONSHIP GOD HAD WITH US WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT AND THE ROOTS OF OUR HUMAN RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHERS.  OUR FIRST PARENTS RUINED OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.  IN FACT, IN THIS INITIAL SIN, WE HAVE LOST OUR REASON TO BE.

May we read the Holy Father:

“Once the fundamental relationship is spoilt, the other relational poles are also jeopardized or destroyed: sin ruins relationships, thus it ruins everything, because we are relational..”

6)-WE COME INTO THIS WORLD DISORGANIZED FROM THE OUTSET BY SIN, WE HAVE LOST OUR REASON TO BE.

TO LOSE OUR REASON TO BE IS THE WORST DESASTROUS CONSQUENCE IN OUR BIRTH.  WE ARE BORN A REASONABLE BEING WITHOUT OUR REASON TO BE.  THE INITIAL SIN WOUNDED OUR HUMAN NATURE WHICH CAN NEVER BE CHANGED.  WE INHERIT THROUGH BIRTH A BURDEN WHICH IS OUR HUMAN NATURE PROFOUNDLY WOUNDED BY THIS INITIAL SIN. 

May we read the Pope in his own words: 

“Now, if the relationship structure is disordered from the outset, every human being comes into a world marked by this relational distortion, comes into a world disturbed by sin,,”

7)-THE BURDEN OF THE ORIGINAL SIN IS A PERSONAL SIN TO EACH ONE OF US.

EACH PERSON INHERITS PERSONALLY THE ORIGINAL SIN FROM BIRTH IN THE HUMAN NATURE.  THE INITIAL SIN COMMITTED BY OUR FIRST PARENTS IS INHERITED AS A PERSONAL SIN BE EACH ONE OF US.

The Pope in his own words: 

“by which he or she is marked personally; the initial sin tarnishes and wounds human nature (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church,  404-406).”

8)-ONLY GOD CAN RESUME HIS RELATIONSHIP OF LOVE WITH US. IN NO WAY WE CAN REDEEM OURSELVES SINCE WE DO NOT HAVE SUCH DIVINE POWER. 

POPE BENEDICT XVI, WITH HIS PROFOUND THEOLOGY, THROWS A GREAT LIGHT ON OUR HUMAN CONDITION IN OUR STATE OF SIN; HE TEACHES US HOW GOD WILLED TO REDEEM US INDIVIDUALLY, ONE BY ONE,  FROM OUR MISERIES IN OUR STATE OF SINS.  JESUS, WITH HIS PRIESTLY MINISTRY, DID NOT REESTABLISH OUR DOWNFALL HUMAN NATURE.  HE LEFT OUR HUMAN NATURE IN ITS DESASTROUS MORAL AND PHYSICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE  ORIGINAL SIN.  JESUS CAME TO OFFER TO EACH ONE OF US THE HELP OF HIS PRIESTLY POWERS TO WORK OUR SALVATION.  THUS JESUS OFFERS US SALVATION.  ONLY OUR FREEDOM TO REFUSE SETS THE LIMIT TO SALVATION.

May we read the Holy Father in his own words:

“And by himself, on his own, man is unable to extricate himself from this situation, on his own he cannot redeem himself; only the Creator himself can right relationships. Only if he from who we distanced ourselves comes to us and lovingly holds out his hand can proper relationships be restored. This happens through Jesus Christ, who goes in exactly the opposite direction to Adam, as is described by the hymn in the second chapter of St Paul’s Letter to the Philippians (2:5-11): whereas Adam did not acknowledge his creatural being and wanted to put himself in God’s place, Jesus, the Son of God, was in a perfect filial relationship with the Father, he emptied himself and became the servant, he took the path of love, humbling himself even to death on a cross, to set right our relations with God. The Cross of Christ thus became the new tree of life.

Dear brothers and sisters, living out faith means recognizing God’s greatness and accepting our smallness, our condition as creatures, letting the Lord fill us with his love and thus develop our true greatness. Evil, with its load of sorrows and sufferings, is a mystery illuminated by the light of faith which gives us the certainty that we can be freed from it: the certainty that it is good to be a human being.”

9)-SAINT PAUL REVEALS TO US GOD’S ETERNAL DESIGNS WHICH ARE INDISPUTABLE.

May we read saint Paul in Romans 11:33-36:

“! Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

“For who has known the mind of the Lord,
    or who has been his counselor?”
 “Or who has given a gift to him
    that he might be repaid?”

 For from him and through him.”

10)-IN HIS ETERNAL DESIGN, GOD WANTED EVERYBODY IN THE SIN OF ADAM SO TO HAVE COMPASSION ON EVERBODY.

GOD NEVER THOUGHT OF ABANDONNING HIS HUMAN RACE INTO THE CLAWS OF SATAN.  HE NEVER WANTED TO SEPARATE US FROM HIS DIVINE PROVIDENCE AND ETERNAL LOVE. THUS, GOD SAW THE CRIME OF OUR FIRST PARENTS AGAINST HIS ETERNAL SOVEREIGNTY AS A PLACE FOR HIS MERCY.  THUS GOD WANTED TO CALL US OUT OF OUR STATE OF SIN WHERE WE WERE LOST FOREVER.

May we read Saint Paul in his revelation in Romanos 11:32:

“For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all..”

GOD WANTED ALL OF US EQUAL IN BEING BORN IN SIN SO AS TO BE ALL EQUAL IN SHARING IN HIS MERCY. GOD DID NOT WANT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANY HUMAN BEING.   WE ARE ALL BORN EQUAL IN SIN, BUT ALSO ALL BORN EQUAL IN GOD’S MERCY.  ONLY OUR FREEDOM TO REFUSE SETS THE LIMITE TO SALVATION.

11)-SALVATION DEPENDS ON PREACHING THE GOSPEL TO ALL.

SAINT MARK REVEALS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE GOSPEL IN SALVATION OF SOULS.

May we read saint Mark in Mark  16:14-16:

“Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.  And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.  Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.”

12)-JOHN PAUL II BEGAN HIS PONTIFICAL PRIESTLY MINISTRY WITH  THE PROCLAMATION OF HIS APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION  “CATECHESI TRADENDAE.”   

THE POPE ON THE 16^TH OF OCTOBER IN YEAR 1979, MANDATED A NEW REORIENTATION FOR THE BISHOPS IN THE CHURCH. 

IN NUMBER 12 OF HIS EXHORTATION, THE POPE AFFIRMS THE PRIORITY GIVEN TO TEACHING CATECHISM IN THE EPISCOPAL PRIESTLY MINISTRY.

May we read the Pope in his own words: 

“Next we see a striking fact: Some of the most impressive Bishops and pastors, especially in the third and fourth centuries considered it an important part of their espiscopal ministry to deliver catechetical instructions and write treatises. It was the age of Cyril of Jerusalem and John Chrysostom, of Ambrose and Augustine, the age that saw the flowering, from the pen of numerous Fathers of the Church, of works that are still models for us.
It would be impossible here to recall, even very briefly the catechesis that gave support to the spread and advance of the Church in the various periods of history, in every continent, and in the widest variety of social and cultural contexts. There was indeed no lack of difficulties. But the word of the Lord completed its course down the centuries; it sped on and triumphed, to use the words of the Apostle Paul in 2 Tes 3:1.”  C.T. 12.

13-JOHN PAUL II CONDEMNS  WITH A SPECIAL MENTION TO BISHOPS AND PRIESTS WHO GIVE PRIORITY TO SPECTACULAR WORKS  IN POLITICS OR CONSTRUCTIONS.

May we read John Paul II in his own words:

“The more the Church, whether on the local or the universal level, gives catechesis priority over other works and undertakings the results of which would be more spectacular, the more she finds in catechesis a strengthening of her internal life as a community of believers and of her external activity as a missionary Church.”— C.T. 15.

IN NUMBER 15, THE POPE UNDERLINES PRIORITY SHOULD BE GIVEN TO TEACHING CATECHESIS.

“the Church is bidden by God and by events - each of them a call from Him - to renew her trust in catechetical activity as a prime aspect of her mission.”

May we read the Pope in his own words of Exhortation:       CT 15:

“ The second lesson concerns the place of catechesis in the Church's pastoral programs. The more the Church, whether on the local or the universal level, gives catechesis priority over other works and undertakings the results of which would be more spectacular, the more she finds in catechesis a strengthening of her internal life as a community of believers and of her external activity as a missionary Church. As the 20th century draws to a close, the Church is bidden by God and by events - each of them a call from Him - to renew her trust in catechetical activity as a prime aspect of her mission. She is bidden to offer catechesis her best resources in people and energy, without sparing effort, toil or material means, in order to organize it better and to train qualified personnel. This is no mere human calculation; it is an attitude of faith.”

14)-IN NUMBER 16, JOHN PAUL II THE COMMON AND DIFFERENT RESPONSABILITY TO TEACH CATECHESIM TO THE FAITHFUL.

We read John Paul II to Bishops in CT 16:

“The third lesson is that catechesis always has been and always will be a work for which the whole Church must feel responsible and must wish to be responsible. But the Church's members have different responsibilities, derived from each one's mission. Because of their charge, pastors have, at differing levels, the chief responsibility for fostering, guiding and coordinating catechesis. For his part, the Pope has a lively awareness of the primary responsibility that rests on him in this field: In this he finds reasons for pastoral concern but principally a source of joy and hope. Priests and religious have in catechesis a pre-eminent field for their apostolate. On another level, parents have a unique responsibility. Teachers, the various ministers of the Church, catechists, and also organizers of social communications, all have in various degrees very precise responsibilities in this education of the believing conscience, an education that is important for the life of the Church and affects the life of society as such. It would be one of the best results of the general assembly of the synod that was entirely devoted to catechesis if it stirred up in the Church as a whole and in each sector of the Church a lively and active awareness of this differentiated but shared responsibility..”

14)-THE POPE MANDATES TO BISHOPS TO TEACH CATECHISM TO ADULTS ALL YEAR ROUND.

We read John Paul II in  CT 43:

“ To continue the series of receivers of catechesis, I cannot fail to emphasize now one of the most constant concerns of the synod fathers, a concern imposed with vigor and urgency by present experiences throughout the world: I am referring to the central problem of the catechesis of adults. This is the principal form of catechesis, because it is addressed to persons who have the greatest responsibilities and the capacity to live the Christian message in its fully developed form.(90) The Christian community cannot carry out a permanent catechesis without the direct and skilled participation of ADULTS, whether as receivers or as promoters of catechetical activity. The world, in which the young are called to live and to give witness to the faith which catechesis seeks to deepen and strengthen, is governed by adults. The faith of these adults too should continually be enlightened, stimulated and renewed, so that it may pervade the temporal realities in their charge. Thus, for catechesis to be effective, it must be permanent, and it would be quite useless if it stopped short at the threshold of maturity, since catechesis, admittedly under another form, proves no less necessary for adults..”

15)-OUR BISHOPS NEED TO STUDY THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH IN ORDER TO GUIDE THE PEOPLE OF GOD TO HOLINESS.

WITHOUT ANY DOUBT, THE IGNORANCE OF OUR BISHOPS IN THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH CAUSED THE SEXUAL CRISIS IN THE CHURCH.  THE SEXUAL CRISIS IN THE CHURCH WAS NOT A NORMAL ONE!

16)-THE UNCONTROLLABLE FORCE OF LIBERALISM, OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY AND OF SATAN TOOK OUR BISHOPS BY SURPRISE!  

MANY BISHOPS  AND PRIESTS SAW THE ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH AS FRIENDS AND LIBERATORS FROM THE HEAVY YOKE OF AN OLD CHURCH.  FOR BISHOPS AND PRIESTS, TEACHING CATECHISM DOES NOT BELONG TO THEM.  TO BE BISHOP IS AN HONOR MORE THAN A BURDEN.  AND TO BE PRIEST IS A GOOD JOB!  WHY NOT HAVING OUR WIVES AND RAISE OUR OWN CHILDREN LIKE PROTESTANT PASTORS DO!!!

17)-SUCH AN ECCLESIASTICAL FRAMEWORK CALLED FOR A MORAL DISASTER IN THE CHURCH AND IT CAME!

SEMINARIES DO NOT PREPARE PRIESTS TO TEACH CATECHISM.  MANY SEMINARIES CANCELLED THEOLOGY TO GIVE PRIORITY TO MODERN PSYCHOLOGY.  WE STUDY CARL JUNG, FREUD. A SPECIAL STUDY TO MASLOV’S  HIERARCHY OF NEEDS AND HIS METHOD OF “GESTALT” TERAPIA WHICH PROMOTES “SELF LOVE”.  THUS THE   METAMOTIVATION IN THE INDIVIDUAL WHO CONSTANTLY NEEDS TO BE TOLD HE IS GOOD PROMOTES  THE LOVE OF SELF AS BASIC! 

18)-PRIESTS AND BISHOPS DETEST TEACHING CATECHISM. 

THEY LEAVE THEIR SEMINARY FORMATION WITHOUT  ANY PREPARATION TO TEACH CATECHISM.  THEY COME INTO THEIR PRIESTLY MINISTRY WITH A SUPERIORITY COMPLEX.  THEY ARE PSYCHOLOGIST, SOMETIME THEOLOGIANS.  CATECHISM IS SMALL STUFF WHICH DOES NOT DESERVE THEIR ATTENTION!

19)-CATECHISM, THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCTRINE IN THE LIFE OF THE BELIEVER IS ABANDONED.

BISHOPS ABANDON THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCTRINE TO SAVE SOULS TO GRAN’MOTHERS AND LITTLE GIRLS.

20)-THE RESULTS ARE ADULTS WITH SO MUCH IGNORANCE OF THE FAITH  WHO DETEST PRIESTS.

THERE IS NO WORST ENEMY OF THE CHURCH THAN AN IGNORANT CATHOLIC LEADER IN SOCIETY.  VERY OFTEN PERSECUTIONS AGAINST THE CHURCH ARE POWERED BY CATHOLICS IGNORANT OF THEIR CATHOLIC FAITH.  SO MANY MASONS IN THE WORLD ARE CATHOLIC.  THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AGAINST THE CHURCH IN MEXICO WAS POWERED BY CATHOLIC MASONS! 

JOHN PAUL II ON HIS FIRST VISIT TO MEXICO TOLD THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT HE COULD NOT BE A MASON AND A CATHOLIC.  THE PRESIDENT CONTESTED:  “WHY NOT?”  THE PRESIDENT KNEW MASONARY BUT KNEW NOTHING ABOUT HIS CATHOLIC FAITH.  STALIN, CASTRO, HITLER, HUGO CHAVEZ, PERON ALL CATHOLICS WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR CATHOLIC FAITH.  IN AMERICA, MOST OF  OUR LEADERS IN GOVERNMENT PUSHING FOR ABORTION, GAY MARRIAGES AND OTHER ABOMINATIONS ARE CATHOLICS AND SO IGNORANT OF THEIR CATHOLIC FAITH.

21)-BISHOPS AND PRIESTS, TO LIVE OUR PRIESTLY MINISTRY IN THE WORLD IS TO OBEY THE MAN ENTRUSTED WITH THE KEYS OF HEAVEN.

JESUS ENTRUSTED THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN TO PETER AND HIS SUCCESSORS.  WE ASK OUR BISHOPS, FIRST AND FOREMOST, TO RENEW THEIR SEMINARIES IN THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH.

THE DOCTRINE OF THE ORIGINAL SIN HAS BEEN BANISHED FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.  NOT ONE BISHOP WILL DARE MENTION THE WORD “ORIGINAL SIN” FOR FEAR TO BE BOOED BY OTHER BISHOPS!

JOHN PAUL II ENCYCLICAL’S  “DOMINUM ET VIVIFICANTEM” MUST BE TAUGHT IN SEMINARIES TO GIVE TO OUR PRIESTS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN, THE ORIGINAL SIN AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE CHURCH AND IN THE WORLD.  OUR SEMINARIANS MUST STUDY THE HORROR OF SIN.  MAY THE HORROR  OF SIN BE THE FIRST KNOWLEDGE DETECTING A PRIESTLY VOCATION.  MAY THE CLERGY TOGETHER WITH THE FAITHFUL NEVER TREAT SIN AS  INSIGNIFICANT IN ONE’S LIFE.  WITH A SOUND KNOWLEDGE OF SIN, WE WILL APPRECIATE THE POWER OF GRACE AND THE REDEEMER.

May God bless our Bishops and priests with all his Eternal Love to return to the teachings of the Church.  The professor.